Bryn Terfel justifies his reputation in a wondrous performance of the title-role.

Record Review /
George Hall,
BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01. April 2009

. . . [Terfel] is a massive Falstaff . . . [a] scintillating reading [by Claudio Abbado] . . . Terfel plays nasty like few others (witness his Scarpia) and there is a hard edge to the comedy. Larissa Diadkova's Mistress Quickly fits the mood perfectly and the Nanetta and Fenton of Dorothea Röschmann and Daniil Shtoda add yet more character to the proceedings.